Rug tag-pin



Sept. 1931. J. S. LAUNDERVILLE RUG TAG PIN Filed May '7, 1950 Patented Sept. 8, 1931 PATENT OFFICE JOSEPH S. LAUNDERVILLE, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA BUG TAG-PIN Application filed May 7, 1930.

This invention relates to price tag fasteners and especially to a means for attaching a tag to carpets, rugs, mattresses, pillows, springs and reed furniture, and numerous other articles of merchandise.

An object is to provide a simple, cheap, very strong, easily applied and removed tag fastener.

Another object is to provide a fastener of this class which can not work loose and be lost fron the relative piece of merchandise.

Still another object is to provide a tag fastener of durable character and Which can be repeatedly utilized; being devoid of fragile elements and is of such mechanical structure and operation as to not be weakened in any appreciable degree in adaptation to, use on and removal from the merchandise.

rlChe invention consists in certain advancenents in this art as set forth in the ensuing disclosure and having, with the above, additional objects and advantages, and whose construction, combination and details of means, and the manner of operation will be made manifest in the description of the herewith illustrative embodiment; it being understood that modifications, variations and adaptations may be resorted to within the scope, principle and spirit of the invention as it is more directly7 claimed hereinafter.

Figure 1 is perspective of the fastener as in use on a rua.

Figure 2 is a plan of the detached open fastener.

having a side bar 2 with a bend 3 at one end and ektended from which is a tangential pin-shank 4 whose length is such as to overlap a hook-bar 5 which is tangential to a bend 6 on the relative end of the main bar 2. The bends are about semicircular.

The bar 5 has on its free end an inturned CTI The fastener conprises a metal wire loop Serial No. 450,484.

T is strung over the pin and bar 2 to take a position in the bend 6 of the fastener. After the tag is attached the open pin 4 is pushed through the rug and then portion of spring 8 on the bar 5 is pushed back far enough to allow the pin end to be brought in close to the bar 5. Thereafter the repressed spring 8 is' released and when expanding it passes over the juxtaposed pin lying about parallel to the bar 5. Thus the tendency of the pin shank 4 to spring out to the position of Fig. 2, is restrained by the encasing part of the spring 8, which thus serves as a retainer of the pin.

It is found by actual use that the fastener is very practical and of great tensile strain resistance and not accidentally detachable, since the spring 8 is always under a state of compression between the hook 7 and the bend 3 and the pin 4 is only released by a repression of the proXimate spring 8.

It will be seen that there is no possible manner in which a customer or salesclerk may be injured by the device while handling the merchandise as it is wholly free of any exposed pin or other sharp part which may lacerate or puncture the skin. o

What is claimed is:

A tag fastener including a length of resilient wire bent to provide a main bar having half-round bends at its ends, one of which has a tangent pin shank and the other of which has a tangent bar with an end hook directed toward the main bar, the hook bar and the shank being of a length to materially overlap when the shank is closed 'toward the hook bar, and a helical spring which extends from bend to bend along the main bar and has a repressible part encoilin g the hook bar and adapted to receive the pin end and retain it in closing position along the hook bar.

JOSEPH S. LAUNDERVILLE.

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